BC’s throne speech includes a promise to increase fibre access for some, while Vaughn Palmer notes incongruence of tenure take-back vs. calling for companies to invest more. In related news: Canadian businesses seek to fortify trade with US; Maine needs workers to grow its forest industry; and rising prices/investment in the lumber, market pulp and Canadian residential construction sectors.

In other news: weak federal regulations compromise safety of BC tugboats; a U of Alberta study says mountain pine beetles are mixing genetically; BC moose populations are threatened by wolves and habitat changes; and protesters maintain blockades in Fairy Creek, BC, despite local First Nation saying the old-growth activists are not welcome.

Finally, registration is now open for the 2021 BC First Nations Forestry Conference.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor